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Cannot directly book a resource for this meeting

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Ever since I updgraded Outlook from 2003 to 2007, I am no longer able to add or remove resources to or from meetings I've created in my calendar. When I either create a new meeting or open the item in my calendar and delete the meeting, upon sending the Meeting or Cancellation Request to the resource, I receive the error, "The object could not be found. Cannot directly book a resource for this meeting."

I never received this error prior to upgrading to Outlook 2007 and I do have access to book meetings with all resources in my Exchange environment. I am however able to copy my meetings into the calendar directly. I have also setup my account on another machine and receive the same problem. I am the only user running Outlook 2007, everyone else is running Outlook 2003 with no problems. The following is my environment:

I had the same issue here. I went into Outlook 2007 and noticed that the permissions to the Calendar folder was set as Default-Free/Busy. I changed the Default to Reviewer and it worked! I was able to set-up meeting request with a resource.

Had a user with this same problem. One day it worked, a few weeks later it didn't. Tried different things then discovered our storage group for "Public Folders Database" (we have Public Folders in Outlook) on Exchange 2007 Server Configuration was dismounted. When we mounted Public Folder Database, problem went away.

I had the same issue here. I went into Outlook 2007 and noticed that the permissions to the Calendar folder was set as Default-Free/Busy. I changed the Default to Reviewer and it worked! I was able to set-up meeting request with a resource.

Had a user with this same problem. One day it worked, a few weeks later it didn't. Tried different things then discovered our storage group for "Public Folders Database" (we have Public Folders in Outlook) on Exchange 2007 Server Configuration was dismounted. When we mounted Public Folder Database, problem went away.